BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 8/1/11

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Stealth Boat Glides Over Gas Layer

MiG denies stealth technology transfer to China for J-20 fighter

A new way to detect secret nuclear tests: GPS

The Robotic Grenade Sees All

NASA is developing a nuclear-powered Stirling engine for planetary outposts

GlobalFoundries says quality 14nm around the corner

China’s “Starter Carrier”

Libya, a Model of Fighting Together that Worked

Will 100Mbps internet connections destroy the web as we know it?

Magnetic memories manipulated by voltage, not heat

Novel alloy could produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight

Gas generator to blame for Soyuz/Progress loss

A New Bird of Prey Soaring over Western Afghanistan?

Factbox – The South China Sea’s disputed maritime borders

Graphene could lead way to super-fast Internet

Spacesuits of future will try to imitate gravity

Seal Team Six needs a new doggy cam

Successful Launch for Bulava Missile: Russia

Larger Drawdown Possible For U.S. Marine Corps

Iran Sends Sub, Warship on Red Sea Patrol: Navy

DARPA releases HTV-2 details

China’s J-20 to be effective capability by 2018 - Pentagon

New Bomber Brings ISR Surprises

US Air Force combat fleet's true operational costs revealed

Australian researchers explore benefits of thermopower waves

MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks

How To Beat Iron Dome

Libyan rebels use tiny UAV for personalized recon

Ammonia Borane Could Power Fuel Cell Vehicles

Oliver VTOL’s Hexplane Proves Six Engines Are Better Than Two

FIGHTERJETS compared: Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA vs F-22 RAPTOR

IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever

US Military To Request Up To 5,000 New Robots That Fit In Your Rucksack

Nasa develops laser space communications

Pentagon Isn’t Sweating China’s New Weapons of Doom

Physicists map spiraling light to harness untapped data capacity

Scariest IPv6 Attack Scenarios

Taiwan F-16 sale may be taken up by US Congress

U.S., Allies All But Rule Out Syria Military Intervention

Grounding Ends for Remaining U.S. F-35s

Power-generating device could be embedded in footwear

Military Fuel Cell Market to Reach $1.2 Billion by 2017

Helium balloon will take space tourists into the atmosphere

DARPA to help shield cloud networks from cyberattack

Controlling magnetism with electric fields

Inkjet printing of single-crystal films

Did Einstein discover E = mc2?

United pilots to use iPad for navigation

Learning the lessons of Fukushima

Russia Green Lights $65 Billion Siberia-Alaska Rail and Tunnel to Bridge the Bering Strait!

Researchers make wearable antenna breakthrough

Etch-a-sketch with superconductors

Lasers are the new school for enriching uranium

A First Look Inside Virgin Galactic’s Commercial Spaceship

Lockheed Martin Introduces "Network in a Box"

Breakthrough could provide key to quantum computing

US firm targets unmanned helicopter market with two new designs

NATO Eyes Early BMD Capability

Flywheel claimed to be more efficient than geared drives

Marines Train on Robotic Truck for Future Convoys

Evolution Has Ossified the Internet

New network strategy helps Army meet modern warfare needs

IBM gets another $21m to develop neural net ICs.

Nano bundles pack a powerful punch

Laser Advances in Nuclear Fuel Stir Terror Fear

Infrared Search and Track Sensor (IRST) system hits development milestone

Micro Unmanned Ground Vehicle helps soldiers, first responders

IBM: thinking chips are the end of the beginning

Drones join forces in swarm test

Space station's humanoid robot wakes up

Israel lauds success of Iron Dome missile interceptor

Cold atoms + gold nanowires + lasers = computer

Physicists build first single-photon router

Old fashioned weaponary now greatest threat to war zone helicopter survivability

U.S. Defense Budget Faces Decimation Decade

Second UCAS X47B nearing flight

Boeing tests submarine drone off Santa Catalina Island

USAF Wants More Processing From Onboard Sensors

Obama: Gadhafi Era Over, U.S. Will Be 'Partner'

Glass memory crystals could provide long-term data storage

AES proved vulnerable by Microsoft researchers

Telepresence Robots Seek Office Work

Army revises doctrine for battlefield bots

DARPA to develop GPS-free microchip navigation

Fighter plane-size UAVs mature rapidly

North Korea's cyber capabilities cause alarm

Electronics stretch like skin

Face recognition technology fails to find UK rioters

QinetiQ develops tracked unmanned ground vehicle rugged enough to throw into buildings

Innovative disaster communication tech developed

Darpa's Very Expensive, Sci-Fi Projects from the Future

Computer prediction helps create organic semiconductor material 30x faster than silicon

US Army takes interest in armed UAS software

Report: Russia sold China tech for J-20

U.S. Army Looking To Unmanned Future

Marines Train on Robotic Truck for Future Convoys

IBM unveils brain-like chip

DoD To Expand Cyber Program with Industry

K-MAX Unmanned Cargo Lifting Helo Makes Early Inroads

Catalyst that makes hydrogen gas breaks speed record

NIST uncovers reliability issues for carbon nanotubes in future electronics

New method can speed development of organic semiconductors for flexible displays

The Slow Death of Europe

Researchers Improving GPS Accuracy in the 3rd Dimension

A Chip to Encrypt the Web

Computer lab’s Chinese-made parts raise spy concerns

Computer Chip-Sized Spacecraft Will Explore Space In Swarms

Northrop radar deployed on US border

Can Darpa Control The Satellite Appetite?

Next-Gen Engine Vital To U.S. Rocketry

Sharing Intelligence Helps Contractors Strengthen Cyber Defenses

Robots Could Save Soldiers’ Lives, Army General Says

Japan approves construction of Mitsubishi ATD-X stealth fighter prototype

Read More (Google Translation from original Japanese)

PAK-FA at MAKS 2011

Russian commander says MiG-35 equal to U.S. F-35 fighter

Spider silk helps make 'bulletproof human skin'

Russian primer on airborne EW, starring PAK-FA and F-22

Panetta: Cuts could 'hollow out' defense

USAF Second Missile Warning Satellite Completes Major Environmental Test

Survivability Is Key As Drone Use Rises

Solar-powered soldiers to reduce weight of batteries

Scientists Open New 'Window' Into The Brain

The next big carrier question

DoD: ‘Terabytes’ of data lost to cyber snooping

A systematic way to find battery materials

New GE HD Video Streaming Appliance is Optimized for Unmanned Vehicle Deployment

U.S. Navy Network Warfare Command approves General Dynamics Common Network Interface to deliver real-time tactical picture, improve tactical awareness

Northrop Grumman joins Sand Dragon unmanned aircraft program to defeat improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

Tour the South China Sea

SACEUR: The "battlefields” have dramatically changed

Underwater nuke detecting drone

Researchers create integrated circuit that doesn’t require a battery

New tool may yield smaller, faster optoelectronics

Spin liquids: an exotic quantum state of matter

Record-setting router controls light one photon at a time

New research to enable microwave-based computers

Nanotechnology's Role in the Lithium-ion Battery Anode and Cathode

IAI Unveils the Ghost – a Miniature UAV For Special Operations

US Army reveals details of Joint Multi-Role fleet vision

SpaceX Plans To Be Top World Rocket Maker

NATO Dismisses Gaddafi Scud Threat

This robot can run — it's the fastest one ever

China may have examined US stealth chopper: report

U.S. To Deny Taiwan New F-16 Fighters

Ballistic Missile Tracking with UAVs

How Does Silicon Photonics Work?

Taiwan Hsiung-Feng II

Russia's missile defense S-500

How pulsejet engines work

Gérard Mourou on the development of chirped pulse amplification

Chirped Pulse Amplification

DARPA Hypersonic FALCON HTV-2

JSOW (Joint Stand Off Weapon) live fire

Massive Ordnance Penetrator

Friday, August 12, 2011

Next generation spaceship set for test

Status of nuclear power 2010

Stick-on tattoos go electric

How The Visual System Constructs Moving Objects

Navy, Northrop Grumman take step toward deploying unmanned jet fighters aboard aircraft carriers

Robots help evacuate buildings, search for trapped people

X-rays provide nano views

Artificial Skin

LaserMotive is looking to power UAVs with lasers

Making biofuels 10 times faster

Effortless sailing with fluid flow cloak

Liquid crystals rearrange to glow in three colours

Commercial aviation looks beyond the gas turbine engine

US Navy to replace EP-3s with unmanned aircraft

What Carrier Means In China Military Plans

Review Board Sets Up to Probe HTV-2 Loss

Russia To Unveil Fifth-gen Fighter At MAKS

Cyber-Warfighting Rules Beginning To Emerge

HTV-2 collects unique data during several phases of second flight

Airborne Infrared Sensor Cued In ABM Test With The Integrated Sensor Manager

Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Completes First Free-Flight Test

Japan Calls for China To Explain Aircraft Carrier

India Tests BrahMos Block III Supersonic Missile

New Breed of Micro-Motor

Radar monitors runways for debris at ground level

Russia developing new air defense systems

Researchers discover hydrogen-powered symbiotic bacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels

Biggest Bunker Buster Ever Is In Production

Revolutionary material dramatically increases explosive force of weapons

Army to test high-energy laser this fall to defend against UAVs, rockets, mortars, and artillery

Robots in combat missions: using COM Express to save lives on the battlefield

Photovoltaic Breakthrough

Toyota create first magnesium-sulfur rechargeable battery

The diamond’s quantum memory

NASA selects seven suborbital companies

US Navy confirms joining with army to buy new unmanned helicopter

Taiwan's 'Carrier Killer'

U.S. Asks China to Explain Need for Carrier

Italian Scientist Proposes Craft to Clean Up Space Junk

Technology lets LCDs recycle energy

Moscow warns NATO against extending missile shield

Sensing Surfaces with GelSight

A ‘stone-like’ optical disc that lasts forever’

NASA selects visionary advanced technology concepts for study

LightSquared will not be allowed to harm GPS: FCC

Military-inspired camera launcher can give you perspective on your surroundings

National Petascale Computing Facility

Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Completes First Free-Flight Test

Lowest Power Contactless Short-range Communication Transceiver

Air Force Prepares to Launch DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle

Micro-robots build themselves

Russian AF chief: US fighters superior to Su-35S

F-35 grounding explained by Australian Aviation

Raytheon Small Diameter Bomb II Uncooled Tri-Mode Seeker Exceeds Expectations

Downing of U.S. Chopper a 'One-Off': Pentagon

Navy seeks underwater drone to prowl high seas

Graphics processors become parallel algorithm processors

The nanoscale secret to stronger alloys

Light speed hurdle to invisibility cloak overcome

Pipistrel Introduces The World’s Most Powerful Electric Airplane

Like Superman’s X-Ray Vision, New Microscope Reveals Nanoscale Details

US Mulls Fighter Jet Future

Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales - Darpa picks Raytheon

Taiwan unveils eco-friendly rewritable 'paper'

Microsoft Research develops fast 3D face modeling system

Caltech engineers create photonic 'diode'

Nanodiamond transistors and house-sized computers are coming

Laser Weapons Might Protect U.S. Copters From Next Attack

Tactical Laser Weapon to Integrate on U.S. Navy Remotely Operated Weapon Stations

Sikorsky X2 TECHNOLOGY Demonstrator

Naval Research Interest In Aviation Soars

Navy Drops Carrier Group, Down To Nine

Discovery points way to graphene circuits

CalTech, UCSD bring photonics to silicon

Why Oceania Matters

Raytheon to upgrade Special Operations combat helicopters with latest infrared sensor technology

NextGen air traffic control avionics are moving from concept to cockpit

Russia uses dirty tricks despite U.S. ‘reset’

DHS officials: Stuxnet can morph into new threat

Test-tube brain aces 'plop' quiz

Robot learns from experience

Electricity generation using microbial fuel cells

Pentagon chief warns won't accept extra spending cuts

Japanese Inventor Develops Flying Sphere Drone

Diamond circuits for extreme environments

Caltech-led engineers solve longstanding problem in photonic chip technology

Pentagon cyber program to fund hacker innovation

Breakthrough in photonic chip research paves way for ultrafast information sharing

Boeing selects Atlas V rocket for space taxi service

Making Runways Safer

Solid-state Lithium Batteries In Development

Navy asks industry to develop large unmanned submarine able to operate independently for more than two months

DNA-purified nanotubes are step toward superconducting ‘quantum wire’

A new planning tool helps direct traffic on aircraft carriers

US military scrambles to catch up with the cloud

Hobbyists' Toy Truck Saves 6 Soldiers' Lives

China says Japan defence paper 'irresponsible'

Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System

Dramatic simplification paves the way for building a quantum computer

Ultrafine Location Fixes

Scientists Transform Acids Into Bases, Defying Chemistry Rules

'Squishy' Memory Device Utilizes Liquid Metal

10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years

IBM to Unveil Secure Open Wireless System

F-18D Landed All By Itself

Dream screens from graphene

Warning on Defense Budget Cuts

Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites

Hillary Clinton makes "unbelievable" F-35 pitch to India

Huge Cyber Spying Effort Revealed, China Suspected

World's smallest battery will put power everywhere

Boeing building lasers for Navy machine guns

New solid-state compound beats old school lithium-ion batteries

Japanese Scientists Invent Robot That Learns, Thinks, and Acts

New IEEE standard allows for broadband wireless access 100 km from a transmitter

Simple new method of writing magnetic data

Metamaterial allows for switching light like electronic circuits

Scientists build 800Mbps wireless network with just LEDs

Magnetic RAM comes of age

Brain-controlled bicycles, cars, and computers are coming

Landscape Recognition System Sought by US Intelligence

US to continue China spy flights despite Su-27 incident

HALE-D Demonstrated During Abbreviated Flight

Raytheon Develops Miniature Antenna To Extend Millimeter Wave Friendly ID Technology

Japan Warns of China's Growing Naval Muscle

Super Sensitive Small Missile Detector

Army drills robot mule for Afghanistan duty

Army marches smart phones, apps to the battlefield

Sun-free photovoltaics

Revealing water’s secrets

Rare Earth-Free Electric Car Motor Developed in Japan

New material could help facial reconstruction for soldiers’ blast injuries

New invisibility cloak conceals objects from human view

Troubled $1.2 billion nuclear detection program cancelled

How to make solar power available 24/7

Graphene used to increase storage density and speed of electronic memory devices

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